Every year, all over the UK, National Bike Week takes place in June. This year, during Bike Week, Cardiff council is celebrating cycling by holding the first Cardiff Cycle Festival. As part of the festival, Cardiff's Cycling Officer Jo Sachs-Eldridge approached Cycle Training Wales (CTW) to see if an event could be held that would include people who would not normally feel it was for them – non-cyclists being the main target group.

Jon Howes, workshop co-ordinator of Cardiff Cycle Workshop got in touch with Cardiff's social design collective thinkARK, as we had previously assisted with cycling consultation for Cardiff council, to put the idea that we organise a collaborative project that would involve a wider community of people in Cardiff, and suggested we launch Papergirl Cardiff.

Papergirl Photograph: Papergirl Berlin Papergirl Berlin/Public Domain

The original Papergirl project was started in Berlin, as a reaction to a new law preventing poster pasting in the city, and took off as an inclusive and radical art and cycling event that has now spread worldwide. Papergirl events have taken place in New York, San Fransisco, Cape Town, and Istanbul, as well as a host of other cities.

Papergirl only came to the UK last year, when Manchester hosted the event, and now there are also Papergirl projects in Bristol, Leeds, and Glasgow.

Papergirl Cardiff will be the first event in Wales, and promises to be an exceptional project. thinkARK members were very happy to be involved, and we put our heads together with CTW to see how best we could run it. We've been meeting for a few weeks now, and thankfully, with a mix of skills, and knowledge about the art and cycling scenes in Cardiff, and a great enthusiasm for the project, we're well on the way to getting Papergirl Cardiff 'on the road'.

Papergirl Cardiff is looking for as many people as possible – children, adults, artists, designers, students and enthusiastic amateurs, to send in a piece of artwork, which could be anything from a doodle to a drawing, a poem to a photograph or a painting, and will be exhibiting all the submissions, before a host of cyclists take the artworks, rolled up in a newspaper – messenger style – and hand out rolls of art to members of the public – who knows where the art will end up, or who will treasure their work?

This could be a great Easter holiday artistic project for children and students, and we already have submissions promised by artists and designers from Cardiff and beyond – we'll also be getting out the pencils, paint and paper to contribute some art!

We'll be holding the exhibition the week before Bike Week starts, and opening the festivities on Saturday 18 June with a mass bike ride around the city to hand out the rolled up art. We really want to put Cardiff on the map with this event – it's for everyone, and we hope it will attract lots of people to take part in both the art and cycling – and have a lot of fun!

Read our blog or follow us on twitter and Facebook to find out how to get involved.

Geraldine Nichols is a member of thinkARK – see their blog here. Follow @PapergirlCDF and find their blog here.